after the planned parenthood mass shooting in colorado and just over a week since the mass shooting in san bernardino, california, connecticut is going to act again. connecticut s governor dan milloy announced he s going to sign an executive order that will ban the sale of guns in his state to anyone who appears on a federal terrorism watch list. right now it s totally legal for anyone on a terror watch list to buy all the guns they want. even people who are on the no-fly list and aren t allowed to board a commercial airliner in this country, they nonetheless are legally allowed to buy semi-automatic assault rifles and handguns in any number. congress voted on but failed to close that terror watch list loophole last week but now connecticut s governor says he ll close it himself. governor milloy saying today, if congress will not act, we in the states will. at least he will. in terms of federal action on guns, there is also word tonight that president obama himself may now be in the
was forced to testify in the investigation into bridgegate. he got dragged right through the middle of it. so just like, that presto, chris christie s brilliant political move concerning the new hampshire state republican party, became one of the most interesting mini scandals involving the new hampshire republican party. are new hampshire republicans unnerved by their executive director of their state party having to testify in the bridgegate scandal? interesting. well, now that chris christie is at 3%, wa, wa, nationally, everything about him and his political scandals is pretty much an irrelevance in the presidential race. but it turns out the republican party of new hampshire has a more interesting mini controversy roiling its ranks as we get closer and closer to the new hampshire primary. this is jennifer horn. she s the state chair of the republican party. and this week when republican presidential front-runner donald trump put out his proposal that all muslims should b
director of their state party having to testify in the bridgegate scandal? interesting. well, now that chris christie is at 3%, wa, wa, nationally, everything about him and his political scandals is pretty much an irrelevance in the presidential race. but it turns out the republican party of new hampshire has a more interesting mini controversy roiling its ranks as we get closer and closer to the new hampshire primary. this is jennifer horn. she s the state chair of the republican party. and this week when republican presidential front-runner donald trump put out his proposal that all muslims should be banned from entering the united states the new hampshire state republican chair jennifer horn put out this statement in response. it says, while my position is certainly political, i am an american first. there should never be a day in the united states of america when people are excluded based solely on their race or religion. it is unrepublican. it is unconstitutional. and i
interesting. well, now that chris christie is at 3%, wa, wa, nationally, everything about him and his political scandals is pretty much an irrelevance in the presidential race. but it turns out the republican party of new hampshire has a more interesting mini controversy roiling its ranks as we get closer and closer to the new hampshire primary. this is jennifer horn. she s the state chair of the republican party. and this week when republican presidential front-runner donald trump put out his proposal that all muslims should be banned from entering the united states the new hampshire state republican chair jennifer horn put out this statement in response. it says, while my position is certainly political, i am an american first. there should never be a day in the united states of america when people are excluded based solely on their race or religion. it is unrepublican. it is unconstitutional. and it is un-american. from a mainstream point of view it s that statement you
connecticut. despite all that support then of course congress wasn t able to pass any new federal gun restrictions. some states did begin to take it on at that time. after the sandy hook elementary school massacre connecticut and the state of new york both passed laws banning some large-capacity ammunition magazines and banning some kinds of semi-automatic assault rifles including the type of gun that was used at sandy hook. gun rights groups, of course, challenged those laws in court. but today a u.s. appeals court just one level below the supreme court, the second circuit u.s. court of appeals, today upheld the new york and connecticut post-sandy hook gun laws. gun groups are furious. they say they re going to take this all the way to the supreme court. but for now at least with this appeals court ruling it s a win for governor dan milloy and governor andrew cuomo and for the very idea that any gun reforms can ever be passed in this country even in the wake of something as shocking a